TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
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David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor
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HHS graduation
Heppner High School’s
Class of 2021 graduation
ceremony will be held June
5, 2021, at 2 p.m. in the
HHS gymnasium. The cer-
emony is invitation only
due to current COVID re-
strictions and will not be
open to the public. A live
stream of the ceremony can
be found at https://www.
IOOF holds annual
Hardman cemetery
cleanup
Joann Burleson to
celebrate birthday
nfhsnetwork.com/events/
heppner-high-school-hep-
pner-or/evt320ee679d1.
School staff will be
available at the Heppner El-
ementary School gym from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday to
accept gifts and cards for
the graduates to gather after
their ceremony.
Celebration of Life
Heppner resident Joann
Burleson will celebrate her
90 th birthday on June 14.
She was born in Colorado in
1931 and spent her working
years in Canby, OR. She
moved to Heppner in the
late 90’s and has been ac-
tive in the community ever
since. A relative told the
Gazette-Times, “She loves
Heppner.”
No party is planned due
to Covid, but her family
Joann Burleson
intends to visit and help her
celebrate.
On a recent blustery
Tu e s d a y o n H a r d m a n
Ridge, several members of
the Willow Odd Fellows
Lodge held a work party
at the historic Hardman
Cemetery in preparation of
Memorial Day weekend.
Lawn mowers, weed eaters,
and tractors with bush-hog
mowers moved in and in
short order had the cem-
etery looking ship shape. Jim Swanson helped out at
Lodge members donating the cemetery cleanup day in
their time, equipment and Hardman.
Grant to receive coaches’
association award
Longtime Heppner ath-
letic director and coach
Greg Grant will receive
the 2021 Oregon Athlet-
ic Coaches Association’s
(OACA) Dave Johnson
Contributor Award on June
6 at Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity in La Grande.
The award has been
given the past 20 years for
coaches in recognition of
time they have served and
contribution toward state
and local athletic programs
and service to the OACA.
Grant’s teams have
won state titles in 1992,
2015, 2019 and finished
second in 2007, 2014. Grant
has been the head football
coach at Heppner since
1990. He has been the golf
coach since 1990 and the
athletic director since 2000.
fuel were Frank Osmin, Al
Osmin, Steve Puntenney,
Joe Perry, Jim Swanson,
Roger Britt, Kelwayne
Haguewood and Tommy
Wolff.
The IOOF Hardman
Cemetery is under the care
and maintenance of Willow
Lodge #66 of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows,
and has graves dating from
1888 to the present. Several
century-old gravestones
have very decorative and
unusual inscriptions, with
many pioneer families in-
terred there.
Greg Grant
Chamber ECONOMIC
meeting DEVELOPMENT GROUP
scheduled
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Richard John Fisher
“Big Fish”
5/9/59 - 2/7/21
Please join us as we honor the life and memories of
our dear loved one who left us at Providence
St. Vincent’s in Portland on February 7, 2021
June 5, 2021
11 AM
Heppner City Park
Main Street, Heppner
Please bring chairs or blankets for seating and join us
for a meal after the service.
The next Heppner
chamber meeting will be
held June 3 from noon to 1
p.m. at the Gilliam and Bis-
bee Building. The meeting
will be all entities reporting
and RSVPs are required for
lunch and seating.
Contact the chamber at
heppnerchamber@gmail.
com or 541-6765536 for
additional information.
HealthyMC.org
Objectives
Main
of Healthier
Morrow County
whichever is less (subject
to available funding). In-
crement requests will be al-
lowed with maximum fund-
ing to business of $25,000;
e.g., multiple projects over
time.” Any business wish-
ing to apply for one of these
grants should contact the
Heppner Chamber of Com-
merce office 541.676.5536
or email heppnercham-
ber@gmail.com. The office
is located on Main St in
Heppner. More informa-
tion about the WCVEDG
grant programs, includ-
ing application forms, are
also available online at
heppnerchamber.com/eco-
nomic-dev.
In an effort to clean up
derelict properties in prepa-
ration of new construction
in the south county area,
WCVEDG has also institut-
ed a new grant program for
demotion and abatement of
as asbestos discovered. The
grants can also be used for
extension of existing utili-
ties to a new home site.
The final grant program
offered by WCVEDG has
been the Community and
Public Enhancement grants.
These grants are for local
organizations, clubs, spe-
cial districts or government
entities for improvements
to the communities. Some
of the organizations that
have received these grants
are City of Heppner, Hep-
pner Day Care, Heppner
Little League, Heppner
Community Foundation,
Heppner Cemetery Dis-
trict, Oregon Trail Library
District, Ione Booster Club,
City of Ione, Ione Booster
Club, Town of Lexington,
Lexington Grange, South
Morrow County Neighbor-
hood Center and the Four
Corners Snowmobile Club.
Also, in housing devel-
opment WCVEDG recently
completed construction and
is currently renting out two
town house style duplexes
in Heppner and is nearing
completion and ready for
renters in a duplex in Ione.
WCVEDG also recently
purchased 23 acres in the
Heppner city limits above
Rock Street and is seeking
funding to develop 13 1 -
½ acre lots that will have
broadband, city sewer and
water, paved streets and
sidewalks and views.
Board members of WC-
VEDG include Kim Cuts-
forth, chair, Nancy Snider,
vice chair, Marcia Kemp,
secretary, Kraig Cutsforth,
treasurer, and Jeff Bailey,
Ed Rollins, Darrell Green
and David Sykes, directors.
Sykes and Snider were also
recognized for each having
served over 25 years on the
WCVEDG board.
Through Healthier Morrow
County, our hope and vision
are that this community-wide
initiative will benefit every
person and family in our county
today, tomorrow and for many
years to come.
In everything we do, the decisions we make and the direction
we take, you will find them grounded in the following goals.
Strive to be your First
Choice for quality,
compassionate,
local care and lead the way
in promoting wellness and
improving health in Morrow
County.
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of care provided
in each patient
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Ensure that our
facilities, technology
and infrastructure,
as well as our workforce
of 136 employees and 52
volunteers will continue
to meet the needs of our
communities today, and for
generations to come.
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